A sportsball coach is in the news for having used a taboo word during an interview with some jock sniffers. The other jock sniffers are now demanding the coach be hurled into the void so they can get some piety points on Twitter. The coach, of course, has issued the groveling apology, which will make no difference. The people howling for blood are not interested in his apology. They want blood. These cancel campaigns are a form of human sacrifice to appease the mob.

The thing about these campaigns is they obscure something that no one bothers to ask and that is who decided that you cannot use certain words? The coach in this story was responding to a question about fans throwing rubber marital aids onto the floor during games at Xavier University. He jokingly referred to them as “Catholic fags” because it is a nominally Catholic college and the fans of their basketball team seem to be obsessed with rubber penises.

Now, the word “fag” has always been an expletive. As such it was always considered rude to use it in public, especially around women and children. Men, of course, tend to use rough language around one another, but it used to be the custom to avoid such language in public. Today we live in an age where men in dresses are allowed to chase children around the playground, so prohibitions against using rough language in public seem more than a bit ridiculous.

Obviously, that is not why the mob is after the coach. You see, he expressed something less than a positive opinion about people attracted to the same sex. The question that never gets asked is, who decided this? This taboo is not in the Christian Bible or in the Hebrew Bible, so this taboo is not from there. We did not have a vote on it, nor has anyone run for office promising to institute this taboo. What is the moral authority for demanding that we worship homosexuals?

The same question can be asked for most of the novel taboos. Racism used to mean a prejudice against someone for their race. Until the middle of the 20th century, no one cared about racism or used the word in normal conversation. Making judgments about people based on race, ethnicity, sex, class, education and so on is what humans naturally do when evaluating people. All of those, except for the last two, are now official taboos ruthlessly enforced by the worst people.

None of these modern taboos have a recognizable moral authority. Racism, which now means white people making informed decisions about nonwhites, is especially ridiculous, given that the enforcers are almost always white and living in white nationalist communities. The whiter the community, the more absurd and infantile their views on race, but the more certain they are about the alleged racism of their fellow whites living over the horizon.

What is going on here is a bit of moral base stealing. The people wagging their bony finger at the fag-bashing coach assume a moral authority and then proceed to stand on it while lecturing the rest of us. If you could sit down that jock-sniffing weirdo from CBS Sports to explain why he thinks what the coach said warrants him being hurled into the void, he would not be able to do it. All that he knows is he gets points for being at the front of the mob demanding the blood of the heretic.

This is why you see no one in the media that is willing or able to ask any of these people the rather obvious question about these things. Who decided that it is immoral to hold negative opinions about homosexuals? It has always been rude to say disparaging things about people when they are not around to defend themselves, but it has also been rude to pick your nose in public. Rude and immoral are not the same things, so who decided to make rudeness taboo?

The same question can be asked about all of our taboos. There is no moral authority that anyone would recognize. Jesus was fine with slavery, so it is unlikely that he would be upset about judging people by race or ethnicity. Jews call themselves the chosen people, which means the very definition of what it means to be a Jew rests on an assumed racial superiority over all other humans. If racism is the worst taboo, why are Jewish people allowed to practice their religion?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the guy who cooked up the term “homophobia” was psychologist named George Weinberg. He not only coined the term, but declared that it was immoral to be a homophobe. Who in the hell was this guy to think he could conjure a new moral code for the rest of us? That is what he did and lots of other self-important people joined in on it. Why did all the beautiful people suddenly decide that this weirdo is allowed to make up new rules?

Of course, we know the answer. The people in charge have cooked up these novel taboos because their heads are full of nutty ideas about humanity. They do not make any sense because the underlying ideology makes no sense. They never think about it very much because their time is filled with waging their bony fingers at the rest of us so they can get piety points online. It turns out that the moral authority for this stuff is just as mysterious to them as it is to the rest of us.

The reason moral authority for this stuff is a mystery is that the authority is the mindset of the mob. The fundamental morality underpinning democracy is that fifty percent plus one is what makes right. Win the mob, or convince yourself that you have won the mob, and suddenly you are on the side of angels. If the mob can be convinced you are a heretic, then the mob shows up at your door. The morality of the mob is as mysterious to the mob as it is to the rest of us.

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